The SunBird Hikers have hit the trails! We hike every Wednesday from November through March on moderate to easy trails, averaging around five miles and 700 feet elevation. If you would like to join us, email Jack Phillips at jjphillips70@msn.com or Jim Anderson at jhanderson50@gmail.com. We meet at the SunBird Post Office parking lot at…
Come celebrate the season and invite your friends to the Sun Lakes Women’s Connection at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 15, at the beautiful Oakwood clubhouse ballroom, at 24218 S. Oakwood Blvd., in Sun Lakes. A continental breakfast will be served (gluten-free available upon request), followed by music and our guest speaker and vocalist Miss…
Jacque Texeira The audience laughed, moaned, and cheered at the Fun Lakers Fun Feud event. Congratulations to the Mayacres team: Linda and Nick Whitacres, Joan Carlisle, and Ron Deraas, who won the cash prize. However, the Double D’s and The Boobs, the Purple People Eaters, Low Expectations, the O’Solomio Family, the Prime Timers, the Fillins,…
Sun Lakes Sheriff’s Posse Sun Lakes Sheriff’s Posse Commander Craig Lloyd answered the call of duty and became a volunteer first responder in Arizona back in December of 1982. Forty years have passed, and Craig has pretty much seen it all. Craig started his volunteering as an EMT-certified National Ski Patrolman at the Sunrise Ski…
David Zapatka Reader Carmela Hopkins writes, “Every month I look for your column in the Splash. Have you considered an article on the word ‘run?’ You’re on a run. I mean roll.” There are more definitions of this word than any word I have researched. Here are a few. Run verb a. to go faster than…
Ross Dunfee When you hear your service-song played and you were in that branch of military service, please stand and be recognized. And so, the song goes, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, and now Space Force. In turn, veterans of each branch of military service stand, the audience appropriately applauds the veterans, and…